A growing
list of environmental factors has been implicated in this alarming phenomenon.
These environmental factors associated with triggering schizophrenia includ stress and substance abuse, as well as many other factors [see the long
list of environmental factors associated with schizophrenia]
Not exact matches
Such epigenetic mechanisms are high on the
list of suspects when it comes to explaining how
environmental factors that affect parents can later influence their children, such as in the Dutch second world war study, but just how these epigenetic changes might be passed on to future generations is a mystery.
Visualization is courtesy
of TheVisualMD.com More to diet and exercise Getting kids to eat healthfully and get more exercise might sound simple, but the long
list of genetic, cultural and
environmental factors that lead children to these behaviors are complicated and interconnected, and scientists have just started to understand them in the past few years.
In the last few decades the obesity rates have grown alarmingly due to, among other
factors, a variety
of environmental causes such as food processing and the long
list of chemicals, toxins, synthetic hormones, GMO, pesticides, herbicides introduced in our food.
The Organic
Factor: Lemons are on the
Environmental Working Group's
list of fruits to buy organic.
The reasons
factored into its
list range from
environmental protectionism to the support
of social infrastructures in different countries.
The paper, incidentally,
lists several similar examples
of environmental factors affecting past civilisations.